World Intellectual Property Report 2017 - …

1 World Intellectual Property Report 2017 Intangible Capitalin Global Value ChainsExcept where otherwise indicated, this work is licensed un-der the Creative Commons Attribution IGO user is allowed to reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate and publicly perform this publication, including for commer-cial purposes, without explicit permission, provided that the content is accompanied by an acknowledgement that WIPO is the source and that it is clearly indicated if changes were made to the original citation: WIPO ( 2017 ). World Intellectual Property Report 2017 : Intangible capital in global value chains.

2 Geneva: World Intellectual Property should not carry any official emblem or logo, unless they have been approved and validat-ed by WIPO. Please contact us via the WIPO website to obtain any derivative work, please include the following disclaimer: The Secretariat of WIPO assumes no liability or responsi-bility with regard to the transformation or translation of the original content. When content published by WIPO, such as images, graphics, trademarks or logos, is attributed to a third party, the user of such content is solely responsible for clearing the rights with the right holder(s).

3 To view a copy of this license, please visit: designations employed and the presentation of mate-rial throughout this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of WIPO concern-ing the legal status of any country, territory or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or publication is not intended to reflect the views of the Member States or the WIPO mention of specific companies or products of manu-facturers does not imply that they are endorsed or recom-mended by WIPO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned.

4 WIPO, 2017 World Intellectual Property Organization 34, chemin des Colombettes, Box 18 CH-1211 Geneva 20, SwitzerlandISBN: 978-92-805-2895-4 Attribution IGO license (CC BY IGO)Photo credits: monsitj/Getty Images/iStockphotoalexsl/Getty ImagesPrinted in Switzerland3 Foreword 5 Acknowledgements 6 Disclaimer 7 Executive summary 9 chapter 1 Global value chains: the face of 21st-century international commerce 21 Characterizing the growth of global value chains How global value chains are organized and governed What return accrues to intangible assets?

5 How intangible assets permeate global value chains Concluding reflections 36 chapter 2 Coffee: how consumer choices are reshaping the global value chain The changing nature of the coffee value chain Intangible assets and value added Managing intangible assets in the coffee value chain Conclusion 64 chapter 3 Photovoltaics: technological catch-up and competition in the global value chain The evolution of the PV global value chain How do intangibles add value in the PV global value chain? What is the role of IP in the PV industry?

6 Conclusion 90 chapter 4 Smartphones: what,s inside the box? The smartphone global value chain Value capture along the smartphone value chain The role of intangible assets in value capture Perspectives on technological learning and intangibles 124 Acronyms 133 Technical notes 134 Table of contents5 Technological innovations and openness of trade have profoundly changed the face of global production. Converting raw materials into parts and components, assembling final products and delivering them to the end consumer involves supply chains that span an increasing number of economies across the globe.

7 The emergence of these so-called global value chains has been a force for good: they have made a large range of consumer products more affordable, stimulated economic growth and promoted the integration of developing countries into the global economy creat-ing opportunities for economic development and the alleviation of capital notably in the form of technology, design and branding permeates global value chains in important ways. It accounts for a good part of what consumers pay for in a product and determines which companies are successful in the marketplace.

8 It also lies at the heart of the organization of global value chains: decisions on where to locate different production tasks and with whom to partner are closely tied to how companies manage their intangible large number of research reports have been published on the causes and consequences of the rise of global value chains, and many of these reports have acknowledged the key role played by intangible capital. However, few insights are available on why, how and how much. With our World Intellectual Property R e por t 2017 , we hope to help unpack the intangibles black box, in particular by shedding light on how intel-lectual Property (IP) fits into this box.

9 The Report begins by reviewing how global value chains have come about and how they are organized. Against this background, it reveals new estimates of the macro-economic contribution of intangible capital to global value chain production. These estimates show that intangibles account for around one-third of production value or some trillion United States dollars in 2014 across 19 manufacturing the approach of our 2015 Report , we comple-ment these economy-wide perspectives with case studies of specific global value chains namely, coffee, photovoltaics and smartphones.

10 These three cases highlight the different mix of intangibles embedded in different consumer products and provide concrete insight into the role that different forms of IP play in gener-ating returns to investments in innovation and addition, they explore how developing economies notably China have succeeded in participating in global value chains by building their own intangibles, and what opportunities may exist to pursue similar strategies in the evolution of global value chains has been disrup-tive, with some companies thriving and others failing.